Friday, November 4, 2011

The Difference Believing in the Incarnate God Makes

"For those who, on the one hand, believe that life is merely an accidental economy of matter that should be weighed by a utilitarian calculus of means and ends and those who, on the other, believe that life is a supernatural gift oriented towards eternal glory, every moment of existence has a different significance and holds a different promise. To the one, a Down syndrome child (for instance) is a genetic scandal, one who should probably be destroyed in the womb as a kind of oblation offered up to the social good and, of course, to some immeasurably remote future; to the other, that same child is potentially (and thus far already) a being so resplendent in his majesty, so mighty, so beautiful that we could scarcely hope to look upon him with the sinful eyes of this life and not be consumed." By David Bentley Hart from his essay The Anti-Theology of the Body, HERE

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The Beauty of Holiness

My prayer for all who view this blog is that it might assist you in connecting to the beauty and wonder of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, through His grace and mercy.

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"Prayer is a participation in the priestly ministry of Christ and is not a consequence of some external rule but springs from the very nature of our vocation as Christians. It is not the preserve of the clergy but is a vocation common to clergy and laity alike. This is a Biblical teaching which the Reformers understood well: it underlies Cranmer’s insistence that the daily work of prayer be taken out of the monastery and placed in the parish church."

-Bishop Anthony Burton

“Prayer is a matter of love. Man expresses love through prayer, and if we pray, it is an indication that we love God. If we do not pray, this indicates that we do not love God, for the measure of our prayer is the measure of our love for God. ~Archimandrite Zacharias “The Hidden Man of the Heart”

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I am the Rector of St. Martin's Anglican Cathedral, Gander, NL. I was ordained in 1989, and have served in the Parishes of Fogo Island, Botwood, Summerside, PE. and a short time at St. Thomas Church in Boston, England. We returned to Gander, my hometown in 2005 and I served eleven years as the associate priest here at St Martin's. I have been married to Laura since 1982, and we have two children and one grandchild.